Lucknow, Oct 12 (IANS) At least 80 girl students were taken ill at a college in Mirzapur reportedly after consuming sub-standard food, officials said on Thursday. The incident of food poisoning took place at the…
Mumbai, Oct 12 (IANS) A day after Anupam Kher was appointed Chairman of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), its students’ association has drawn the veteran actor’s attention to nine key issues persisting…
New Delhi, Oct 12 (IANS) Only 18 per cent of urban children in grade six to 10 in India eat fruits every day, show results of a survey, revealing poor eating habits of a vast…
Hyderabad, Oct 12 (IANS) A team of five students from an engineering college in Telangana has been selected for the prestigious NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge. The team from SR Engineering College, Warangal, will participate…
New Delhi, Oct 11 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Wednesday asked city government’s Directorate of Education to respond on a plea by a teachers’ body seeking direction for minimum pay to all trained graduate…
New Delhi, Oct 11 (IANS) The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday approved the revision of pay scales for about eight lakh teachers and other academic staff in higher educational institutions…
Patna, Oct 11 (IANS) Two of every five adolescent girls in Bihar are married off before they complete their higher secondary education, CRY revealed on Wednesday as the country marked International Day of the Girl…
New Delhi, Oct 11 (IANS) The Union Cabinet on Wednesday gave its ex-post facto approval to an MoU between India and Belarus for cooperation in the field of vocational education and training. The Memorandum of…
New Delhi, Oct 11 (IANS) Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar on Wednesday announced implementation of the reccomendations of the 7th Pay Commission for teachers in central, and state universities and government-aided colleges. The decision…
New Delhi, Oct 11 (IANS) IIT Bombay on Wednesday grabbed the grand finale of the Sweden India Nobel Memorial Quiz 2017, winning an all-expenses paid trip to the Scandinavian country. The IIT-Bombay team of Jibitesh…
New Delhi, Oct 11 (IANS) As a NAAC team ended its three-day visit to Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) on Wednesday, JNUSU President Geeta Kumari said the team did not meet student representatives to know infrastructural…
Lucknow, Oct 11 (IANS) Students at the Mahatama Jyotiba Phule Rohilkhand University in Bareilly staged a protest on Wednesday following an incident of eve teasing on the campus. The protesting students said a girl was…
Patna, Oct 11 (IANS) Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday launched two programmes under which students will be taught about Mahatma Gandhi’s ideas and what made him unique. The programmes — “Gandhi Katha Vachan”…
Mumbai, Oct 11 (IANS) A prominent school in the eastern suburbs of Mumbai will be renamed after late President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam on the occasion of his 87th birth anniversary on October 15, an official…
By Bappaditya Chatterjee Kolkata, Oct 11 (IANS) Upset over his failure to get a suitable teaching job, Atanu Mistry, a 30-year-old from West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district, allegedly committed suicide recently. According to Mistry’s…
Mumbai, Oct 11 (IANS) Apple Music on Wednesday said it will set up two Mac Labs at the A.R. Rahman-founded KM Music Conservatories (KMMC) based in Chennai and the upcoming campus in Mumbai. The Mac…
Lucknow, Oct 10 (IANS) A chemical leak in a neighbouring sugar mill led to over 100 children in a school in Shamli district of Uttar Pradesh falling sick on Tuesday, police said. Students of the…
Ahmedabad, Oct 9 (IANS) Union Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Prakash Javadekar on Monday denied there were plans to drop ‘Muslim’ and ‘Hindu’ from the names of Aligarh Muslim University and Banaras Hindu University. “There…
Bengaluru, Oct 9 (IANS) Intel India has trained 9,500 developers, students and professors across 90 organisations in the past six months in the emerging field of artificial intelligence (AI). Intel India has collaborated with 40…
New York, Oct 8 (IANS) Researchers have found that all forms of vitimisation — bullying, cyberbullying and harassment — can damage the entire school environment. The study, published in the Journal of Child & Adolescent…